Coey, Dominic - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 6 (2015) 3, pp. 703-748
Using a large set of private health insurance claims, we estimate how physicians’ financial incentives affect their … treatment choices in heart attack management. Different insurance plans pay physicians different amounts for the same services … physicians more for more invasive treatments are associated with a larger fraction of such treatments. To interpret this …